John Murray’s love for all thing jazz shines through this engaging tale of an eternal triangle in a cosmopolitan music scene.

Meet Vince Mori, an Italian Cumbrian, and a very passionate man. Vince is obsessed with women, the clarinet, and his trad jazz band, the Chompin’ Stompers. His son, Enzo, is obsessed with only one woman - his brilliant Oxford contemporary and a world-famous guitarist, Fanny Golightly. Unfortunately, single-minded Fanny only has eyes for Portuguese musical legend Toto Cebola.

Longlisted
The Man Booker Prize 2003
Published by
Flambard Press
Publication date
Jazz etc

John Murray

About the Author

John Murray, a hard-to-categorise novelist, was longlisted for a hard-to-categorise tale of jazz, Cumbria and dictator-era Portugal - a linguistic riff with a touch of magic realism.
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